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Photometric stereo for outdoor webcams

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Photometric stereo for outdoor webcams
We present a photometric stereo technique that operates on time-lapse sequences captured by static outdoor webcams over the course of several months. Outdoor webcams produce a large set of uncontrolled images subject to varying lighting and weather conditions. We first automatically select a suitable subset of the captured frames for further processing, reducing the dataset size by several orders of magnitude. A camera calibration step is applied to recover the camera response function, the absolute camera orientation, and to compute the light directions for each image. Finally, we describe a new photometric stereo technique for non-Lambertian scenes and unknown light source intensities to recover normal maps and spatially varying materials of the scene.
Jens Ackermann, Fabian Langguth, Simon Fuhrmann, M
Added 28 Sep 2012
Updated 28 Sep 2012
Type Journal
Year 2012
Where CVPR
Authors Jens Ackermann, Fabian Langguth, Simon Fuhrmann, Michael Goesele
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